People: Too much of a good thing?

The Center for Biological Diversity has begun shipping 100,000 condoms to its 1,200 volunteer distributors in all 50 states, including family-values states like South Carolina and Georgia.

The free condoms will be given away as part of the Center's 7 Billion and Counting campaign to bring attention to world’s nearly 7 billion people in late October.

Its press release says: The human population has doubled since 1970. And according to the United Nations, it will hit 7 billion on Oct. 31 and at least 9 billion by 2050. Extinction rates for plants and animals around the globe have been accelerating, while the growing human footprint consumes land, water and other natural resources.

Curious how this condom blitz might play among some South Carolinians, I emailed Oran Smith, head of the Palmetto Family group, with news of the group’s plans.

“We will definitely have a response,” he replied.

According to the center, the condoms will come in six different packages with original artwork and slogans featuring the polar bear, jaguar, snail darter, spotted owl, coquí guajón rock frog and the American burying beetle

This last one, for example, will say: "Cover your tweedle, save the burying beetle.”

Are you worried about the burgeoning population? Or is there room for a few billion more of us? Does this condom campaign offend you? Is it encouraging people to have sex when they otherwise might not?